As a preface, this is a report showing the many times, up until May 2022, when the report was compiled, that Trump encouraged violence. And it is relevant given the shooting that occurred in Butler, PA on July 13.
This is what makes statements by many Republicans that Biden’s comments somehow encouraged this incident absolutely ridiculous. https://www.axios.com/2022/05/02/trump-call-violence-presidency
Also: Mark Robinson — who said “Some folks need killing,” is speaking at the GOP convention starting July 15: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mark-robinson-speaks-rnc-1235060464/
Is this how the GOP argues against violence?
Was It a Staged Stunt? Questions To Consider.
I believe the Trump shooting was a staged stunt. Take a look at the comment I added below:
Trump was more concerned about his shoes than anything else:
And this, from audio recorded at the stage. Trump is more concerned about his shoes than his “attempted assassination” and any injuries he may have sustained. This is just one more thing that makes it obvious that this was staged:
Trump: “Let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes.”
Male agent: “I got you sir, I got you sir.”
Trump: “Let me get my shoes.”
Another male agent: “Hold on, your head is bloody.”
Male agent: “Sir we’ve got to move to the…”
Trump: “Let me get my shoes.”
Female agent says “okay” before saying something about the shoe.
Trump: “Wait, wait, wait.”
He then fist pumps to the crowd and mouths the word “fight” three times – a move met with cheers by the crowd. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/what-was-said-on-stage-after-trump-was-shot/index.html But I ask, who is he fighting??? Other registered Republicans who might shoot him? This doesn’t make sense.
Questions
Here are questions and points about the event that do not make sense if the shooter was an actual assassin, and not someone who wanted to create a disturbance. It’s possible he may have intended to shoot to the right of Trump and because he was not a good shot, he may have hit Trump.
1. Trump has let Biden get all the attention for a stretch of time and he needed to turn the spotlight on himself going into the GOP convention July 15.
2. The Trump shooter has been officially identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
3. Crooks is a registered Republican in Pennsylvania who last voted in the 2022 midterms. There is a report that he made a contribution to a liberal Political Action Committee in 2017, when he was 17. That was seven years ago, and five years before he voted in the 2022 midterms as a Republican.
4. Crooks was clearly visible in a rooftop just beyond the event perimeter, about 400 feet, not yards away from the stage. There is no reason real security and Secret Service would not have noticed him. Let’s remember that several people who attended the rally told reporters that they saw the shooter on the roof and told local police about him, about 20 minutes before Trump took the stage, but police appeared to do nothing with that information. https://www.cnn.com/…/roof-trump-rally-shooter-digvid…
Video From July 13 Trump Shooting
5. Video of the shooting itself: https://youtu.be/p3gUw6mr6-o?si=_W2DvrR1m8Df2wgw
On this video, Trump gets hit at :31.
6. It is unclear exactly what hit him. Some reports are that it was a piece of glass from a teleprompter that was damaged, although barely. Other reports are that he was hit by a bullet from AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle.
7. The audience crouches down behind him but no one tries to leave or flee. (The people behind Trump in these events are always handpicked by the Trump rally organizers.)
8. At 1:35, the “”Secret Service” allow Trump to stand up.
9. A real assassin or a second or third shooter could shoot at him again: he was visible, an easy target.
10. About 1:46, they let him wave his arm.
11. Trump remains up, shouting, gesturing and plainly visible, all the while being an easy target until 2:01.
12. Take a look at this photo released last night by Trump Jr. with the flag behind him, have you ever seen such a well-framed photo? With the text: “He’ll never stop fighting to Save America.” Plus, in a post 7 hours earlier, he calls for this to get the same attention as January 6. If you look at other photos, the “Secret Service” agents are looking at the cameras of people taking pictures, more interested in posing for the photo opportunity than doing actual SS work.
13. His father was nicked in the ear. No hospitalization required. Not seriously injured. Not even remotely comparable to the violence of January 6, 2021.
14. Speaker Mike Johnson vowed that the House would investigate. First of all, this is a matter for law enforcement, not the House, to investigate.
Compare Secret Service Agent Behavior With The Reagan Shooting
15. Now, compare that video of a shooting with the Reagan shooting. You do not see Reagan for minutes. The real Secret Service people keep Reagan completely covered with their bodies for a long time. There is no opportunity for someone to get another clear shot at him. This is how the Secret Service reacted in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was shot. pic.twitter.com/N4GBoHqMWZ
16. According to Kaitlin Collins of CNN in a tweet in “X”: “The FBI special agent acknowledges “it is surprising” the shooter was able to fire off several rounds. Again, the Secret Service is unable to answer any questions because they aren’t at this press conference right now. Which is pretty stunning.”
17. Why wasn’t SS at the press conference last night? When it was announced, they were supposed to be there.
18. Trump posted this “All Hell Breaks Loose In One Hour” graphic an hour before his rally. If you’re going to announce your vice presidential pic, you don’t use language like “all hell breaks loose in one hour“ – that language does not fit a positive announcement in any way.
